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Body of
Crediton man
recove red
from tank
CREDITON - The body of a Cre-
diton man was recovered from a
holding tank for liquid manure on
Saturday.
John Edward Williamson, 27, of
45 King Street, was pronounced
dead at 2:55 a.m. Saturday. Exeter
OPP reported Williamson had been
working alone Friday night pump-
ing liquid manure on the farm of
Ron O'Brien in Stephen Township.
Williamson is survived by wife
Heidi and infant son, Derrick.
In remembrance of Williamson,
donation to an educational fund for
Derrick would be appreciated by
the family.
WedneSddy,October 25, 1995
Council accepts
TV coverage of
future meetings
LUCAN - After resisting the broadcasting of its meetings for about
a month, Lucan Council passed a motion on Oct. 17 to allow all me-
dia to future council meetings, which includes being taped live for
Mitchell Seaforth Cable TV.
The decision took only minutes to make.
"I'm really sensitive to our staff," said Reeve Tom McLaughlin. "I
really do believe after a few months, it won't be a big deal...Quite
frankly, I'm sick of discussing it. I'd like to get on with other issues
that are more important."
Councillor Harry Wraith said although he didn't conduct an ex-
tensive survey, he received a negative response from the public con-
cerning the taping of council meetings.
Lawrence Cowell, who first approached council with the proposal
that its meetings be broadcast on television, told council a kill switch
may be available for McLaughlin to use at his discretion.
"I think it would be a good idea for you to have in case things get
out of hand or something is said that shouldn't be said," said Cow-
ell. "I think you should have final control."
Rummage sale
raises $8,400
EXETER - One person's junk is
another's rummage sale treasures.
In its 41st year and using at least
150 volunteers, the South Huron
Hospital Rummage Sale and Auc-
tion raised $8,400 from the sale of
donated clothes, furniture, jew-
ellery, plants, books, glassware and
countless other articles.
Wednesday night, the first night
of the sale, people of all ages
swarmed into the Recreation Cen-
tre where they examined the "oval
room," which is known to hold
more expensive clothing, rum-
maged through endless racks of
clothes and rows of items, then
waited in line-ups to make their
purchases.
The sale, which takes place eve-
ry April and October, has been
attracting people since it first
began in 1954. Held at the
"Old Opera House",
where Darling's Food
Meat Mart is now locat-
ed, it netted $450
after canvassing town merchants
for donations.
The sale eventually moved to oth-
er sites including the old arena, the
Huron Park Recreation Centre and
the Exeter Legion.
The hospital auxiliary began to
hold two sales a year and by 1966
raised more than $3,000 per year.
After outgrowing the Legion hall,
the fundraiser moved to the South
Huron Recreation Centre where in
1991, one of its biggest sales was
recorded as raising $18,300.
"It's just a way of making money
for the hospital auxiliary," said vol-
unteer Heather Etherington. "It's a'
good fundraiser. People love it."
Articles left over from the event
were trucked to a Goodwill store in
London Thursday. The vol-
unteers, at least 40 of whom
have been involved with the
sale for 20 to 30 years, are
geared up for their next
sale which takes place in
April.
Dorothy Bullock says she's been helping with the South Hu-
ron Hospital Rummage and Auction sale for about 20 years.
On Wednesday night she sold four boxes of hats from her dec-
orated hat display area that, she claims drew many young
people.
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Buy an apple from a Cub
Cub Scouts, from left Chris De Jong, Adam Mason and Danny Shapton were selling ap-
ples on Main Street Saturday. The apple- selling project was a fundraiser for the cub
scout organization in Exeter.
Grand Bend council change
development agreement
Councillors give commercial developers a delayed option
Chris Skalkos T -A staff
GRAND BEND - Dave Posliff from the Planning
and Development Department attended council's plan-
ning meeting Monday to suggest a change to the vil-
lgge's site plan agreement.
Posliff proposed council consider changing the meth-
od of obtaining road widening dedications for de-
velopment along Ontario Street in the village.
Currently, whenever a development is deemed to re-
quire a site plan or a development agreement between
the developer and council, the developer is required to
dedicate 10 feet of property to the village at the time of
agreement.
This includes paying for the deed and the cost of a
survey for the 10 foot strip at an approximate cost of
$2,000 before the village signs the agreement.
The widening is designed to deal with traffic prob-
lems on Ontario Street in the future, however, the vil-
lage doesn't know when the physical widening will be
done and Posliff is concerned this process may be un-
fair to smaller developers.
"I have received impressions from other council
members that this whole exercise is very draconian
and there are some feelings it should be changed a lit-
tle," said Administrator Paul Turnbull.
Posliff suggested the site plan agreements be
changed to include a clause which would put property
owners on notice that widening will be required but
the actual conveyance of the land will be delayed until
sir Continued on page 2
New fire chief for Exeter
John Morgan becomes the sixth fire chief to serve Exeter
Chris Skalkos T -A staff
EXETER - On October 16, Wil-
liam John Morgan officially be-
came Exeter's sixth Fire Chief since
1919.
After serving with the Exeter Fire
Department for over three decades,
past chief, Gary Middleton is re-
tiring from his position.
"I've been chasing that little fire
truck for 34 years I thought it was
time for me to step down," said
Middleton.
Morgan will assume the re-
sponsibilities of training personnel,
outlining fire prevention programs,
conducting training exercises, in-
specting buildings and keeping up
with the ongoing paperwork in-
volved with managing a fire hall.
Choosing a new fire chief wasn't
difficult for the fire board com-
mittee. Morgan has been a vol-
unteer fire fighter for 25 years and
within the last two years he has
been serving as Deputy Fire Chief.
Morgan doesn't intend to make
any drastic changes and will con-
tinue to run the fire department as
Middleton has in the past.
"The system Gary put in place is
working and I'm just going to fol-
low it. Why change it if it's not
broken?" said Morgan.
One of Morgan's more important
jobs will be recruiting and main-
taining the high calibre of volunteer
firefighters that have served with
the department over the years.
"Years ago people had less com-
mitments and serving your com-
munity with the fire department
was the main thing to do. Now
there are so many things going on
o' Continued on page 2
Exeter Fire Chlef John Morgan, left, officially took over for re-
tiring chief Gary Middleton.
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